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Keith Richards - Opinions please?

Hi folks -

I wanted to get opinions on this Keith Richards signature. For the most part it looks OK but I also wanted to know if anyone is familiar with the autopenned books that I thought I had read about at one time, was wondering if this might be one of them.

Thanks -

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Permalink Reply by Blinky on January 1, 2016 at 7:35pm

As in the "c" in Richards? I see it now.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 1, 2016 at 7:59pm

You got it. The "th" shows it plainly as well.

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Permalink Reply by Blinky on January 3, 2016 at 6:40am

Looking at this signature would it be fair to say that Keith was not able to take the time to actually sign his high dollar limited edition slipcase version of his book:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolling-Stones-Keith-Richards-Signed-LIFE-L...

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Permalink Reply by Ian Baldock on January 3, 2016 at 9:26am

Yup,sure looks like it!

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 on January 3, 2016 at 11:21am

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Permalink Reply by michelle on January 2, 2016 at 11:00pm

Hi steve. I can see that the sig doesnt' look right to be real; - but what do you mean please by the hard stop etc please as it is good to know for other items that I have seen that I believe to be autopen? thanks

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Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on January 3, 2016 at 4:02am

An Autopen signs with a mechanical armature that follows a preset pattern. It uses a real pen attached to the end. So envision how it signs...

The armature lowers straight down and there us a slight pause. It begins signing until it hits the end of a stroke. It stops, there is a slight pause, and it raises straight up. Repeat this process for every stroke in the signature.

What you get is an ink dot at those pauses at the beginning and end of the strokes. This is especially evident when a pen is used that has a heavy ink flow. The other effect you get is because the armature raises and lowers straight up and down at a 90 degree angle, there are no tapered beginnings or endings of strokes. Just the dot.

You can see this throughout the Richards signature above.